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Barry Schwartz: The Search Engines will be talking about this on the panel

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Barry Schwartz: Session starts in 30 minutes

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[Comment From Guest]Hi Barry. Is this where Matt Cutts participate? Thanks. Harith

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Barry Schwartz: Yes

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Barry Schwartz: Ask The Search Engines - Put your questions to this panel of search engine engineers and representatives who know how things work behind the scenes in terms of indexing and ranking pages

[Comment From Michael Martinez]Barry, I'd like to know if Google is going to restore fast indexing to Blogsearch ala pre-October update. Used to index blog posts in minutes. Now takes days. I provided queries and screen captures: http://tinyurl.com/bnjpeo

[Comment From Bill]The canonical news, will that work across sites? For example if a site syndicates to other sites and wants to be known as the primary site/page for that article, can that tag be put int he header of the page that the syndication story is on to give credit to the site that is doing the syndication?

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Barry Schwartz: @bill good Q, asking

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[Comment From Harith]Barry. Can you ask please. Does Google.co.jp considered now as a bad neighborhood to link to?

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Barry Schwartz: @Hairth they "dont trust it" as much as they use to, that is the answer

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[Comment From Joost de Valk]@Bill: no. it'll only work within the domain, not outside of it.

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[Comment From eClaire]Curious: Will this help pass link juice to the canonical url, same as a 301 might?

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[Comment From Bill]Thank you Barry

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[Comment From Michael Martinez]Barry, they have NO CLUE about this problem or they are not acknowledging it. Have read the thread. They are not addressing the issue.

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Barry Schwartz: Staritng now with Matt Cutts

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Barry Schwartz: Very excited about good news to tell you

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Barry Schwartz: Multiple search engines supporting

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Barry Schwartz: He says Darwin was borned today and one thing evolve is duplicate content

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Barry Schwartz: Dup content is a major issues for SEOs and webmasters

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Barry Schwartz: There are many ways to fix dup content(1) Make sure your CMS is solid with one URL for one piece of content(2) Link to one URL(3) Webmaster Tools perferred domain(4) 301 URLs

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[Comment From Guest]go, go Barry we're all ears :)

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Barry Schwartz: Most SEOs have dup issues and there are issues you cannot solve

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Barry Schwartz: The solution is a link element you put in the head of the page

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[Comment From steve W]Does the content have to be exactly the same? what if you are combining the content from several pages onto one page?

Keri Morgret: Matt: If you're not being crawled well enough, do people know about you? How about your site structure? Do you have a lot of session IDs and other stuff in your URL that is making it harder to crawl?

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Keri Morgret: Cleaning up canonical issues upstream rather than after the fact is better, if possible.

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[Comment From Michael Martinez]Barry, in addition to the Blogsearch issue from Google, I'd like to know from each engine how much referral traffic they send out to other Web sites on a monthly basis.

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Barry Schwartz: @Michael, they wont answer that

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Barry Schwartz: Microsoft says again, "it is just a hint"....

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Will you use the new Canonical Link Tag?Yes

( 82% )

No

( 18% )

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Keri Morgret: Ask has taken an additional step and actually looks at the content. If we run across a number of pages that look really bad, no matter what links you have, you're going to be put to the back of the line for crawling. Good content gets crawled better.

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[Comment From Michael Martinez]Said "YES" but I would have preferred a "Maybe" option on the canonical link tag poll.

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Barry Schwartz: @Michael, I hate maybes :)

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[Comment From Harith]@mattcutts just mentioned about rel "cannonical": "search engines don't have to abide by it". Then its useless, Matt (:(

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Barry Schwartz: "Be catious" when using this canonical tag... Please...

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Keri Morgret: Should we use the tag on pages we don't think there is a problem with?Matt: Yes, but be cautious.

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[Comment From Kasia Bauer]My answer really is "if I have to I'll use it" :)

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Keri Morgret: "Just make sure you get it right" when you use the tag.

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Barry Schwartz: The main different between the 301 and the link tag is that users wont see the link tag and wont be redirected, but 301s will redirect users...

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Barry Schwartz: i.e. keep the users in mind,...

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[Comment From Michael Martinez]Kasia, I think the tag makes a lot of sense for sites that reorganize content within a page without really adding to it or deleting it. It will probably help a lot of folks but not everyone.

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Keri Morgret: Question: How live is it now?Google: YesYahoo: Working on itMicrosoft: Working on it

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Keri Morgret: What prevents someone who has a penalized website from pointing at your own website and knocking you out? [we're not longer talking about canonical tag]

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[Comment From some guy]Question: How live is it now?
Google: Yes
Yahoo: Working on it
Microsoft: Working on it Ask.com: ummmmm. sure.

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Keri Morgret: Google tries very hard to keep it so one site cannot hurt another site.

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Keri Morgret: A domain with a very specific penalty that suddenly redirects might raise eyebrows and an audit.

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Barry Schwartz: The audience on one side of the room, yes that is Matt McGee in second row

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Keri Morgret: Yahoo is very careful about cross-domain issues.

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[Comment From Matt McGee]That's me in the pic!

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[Comment From Kasia Bauer]If we are at dup content issues. I would like to ask what are the basic steps for me to check if I have a dup content problems at all?